Getting the city to seize and “socialize” New York’s housing stock is an explicit goal of the socialist visionaries occupying City Hall, who are on record with plans to mass-mobilize renters via “tenant unions” to harass, squeeze and…
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New York Post and Washington Examiner find three separate reasons this week that Mamdani is finished.
As it ran on the front
Let's be clear about what's happening in New York, because the coverage has been, frankly, thorough. Three separate outlets, three separate angles, all landing on the same conclusion: this is a man whose agenda cannot survive contact with reality. Take the housing piece — tenant complaints are up, and rising tenant complaints under a mayor who ran on tenant protections is, by any measure, a real number that means — well, it could mean people finally feel safe reporting problems. That's not what I meant to say. Strike that.
The point stands. When your own deputy, a man who by every account worked for you, discovers that critics of Israel don't much care that he's Jewish, that's not a contradiction, that's clarifying. It shows the coalition was always going to eat itself, which — actually, if the criticism is coming from people who call themselves anti-Zionist and it lands on a Jewish official specifically because he's Jewish, that's a real problem for the movement, and I probably shouldn't be defending a framing where being Jewish and being 'the wrong kind of ally' get treated like the same fact. Let me back up.…
…(cont) What I want to say is: 'Mamdanism falters' is a headline, not a data point. Falters compared to what? Falters on whose ledger? The Washington Examiner ran that line the same week the Post ran two others, and normally that would look less like reporting and more like three separate writers assigned the same homework. That does happen to be what happened here.
Look, the honest version is this: New York's housing market has real complaints, a councilman ran into real antisemitism from people who should know better, and a political movement is under real pressure — and all three of those things are true independent of whether the guy loses. The papers just needed one guy to be the reason for all three of them. That's not coverage. That's a target, filed on deadline, three times.
“Three papers, three completely different reasons, same guy, same week — that's not journalism finding a pattern, that's an assignment desk with a target. When rising tenant complaints, an aide's ugly welcome from bigots, and a vague 'falters' trend piece all get filed as the same story, you're not reading news, you're reading a hit sequenced for maximum coverage. Somebody decided the conclusion before the reporters got their assignments.”
“Look, three outlets covering three real developments about the same public figure is called a news cycle, not a conspiracy — tenant complaints, staffing drama, and momentum pieces happen to every officeholder. And if it reads like a pile-on, well, maybe that's just what accountability coverage looks like when there's this much to account for. That's not what I — never mind, it's fine.”
The receipts
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